Volo, Collector of the Unique EDH

Commander / EDH Clone GU (Simic) Mutate Tokens

JSEvolved

Creature (41)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Amphin Mutineer
• 1x Archipelagore
• 1x Auspicious Starrix
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Dreamtail Heron
• 1x Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Gemrazer
• 1x God-Eternal Rhonas
• 1x Junk Winder
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Maraleaf Pixie
• 1x Migratory Greathorn
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Pouncing Shoreshark
• 1x Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Tendershoot Dryad
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Trumpeting Gnarr
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Barkchannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 13x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 7x Island
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Twinning Staff

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Instant (9)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Swan Song

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Three Visits

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Maybeboard

Creature (15)

• 1x Annoyed Altisaur
• 1x Augmenter Pugilist  ^Flip
• 1x End-Raze Forerunners
• 1x Faerie Artisans
• 1x Froghemoth
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Loyal Drake
• 1x Mirrorhall Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sawtusk Demolisher
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Sweet-Gum Recluse

Artifact (3)

• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x The Great Henge

Land (2)

• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Reliquary Tower

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Play Volo and ride out the value train.

Introduction

Once Volo is on the field, the real fun begins. There are many fun interactions with just about any creature in the deck. The deck consists of many good stuff cards like Avenger of Zendikar, Consecrated Sphinx and Wurmcoil Engine as well as a package of mutate creatures. A big thing to know whenever you cast a mutate creature while Volo is on the board, you will get a copy. These mutate creatures get pretty out of hand when stacking them all onto one target.

Early Game

Your early game typically consists of ramping and prepping to play Volo, Guide to Monsters as soon as possible. Be aware that your commander is typically going to eat removal most games. This typically isn't an issue with the amount of ramp in the deck allowing you to easily recast him again.

Midgame

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End Game

I've found that the primary way the deck wins is by going wide and pumping your board with Craterhoof Behemoth, God-Eternal Rhonas or Pathbreaker Ibex.

Many of the cards overlap between categories but this is just a general description of they usage.

Ramp

Ramps cards are pretty self explanatory. The goal is to get Volo out on turn 3 or even 2 if possible. Once Volo is out, creature ramps doubles up and with everything else, allows you to play and get out to get your your big baddies more easily for double the fun.

• Ancient Tomb
• Arcane Signet
• Three Visits
• Birds of Paradise
• Castle Garenbrig
• Cultivate
• Farseek
• Growing Rites of Itlimoc  
• Lotus Cobra
• Maraleaf Pixie
• Migratory Greathorn
• Nature's Lore
• Ornithopter of Paradise
• Sol Ring
• Sylvan Caryatid

Draw

Beast Whisperer - Triggers off all of your cast creature spells.

Dreamtail Heron - Part of the mutate package. Mutating this onto a creature with Volo out allows you to draw at least 2 cards and even more if you mutate onto a single creature.

Eidolon of Blossoms - Draw a single card on ETB and whenever one of your few enchantments ETB. When cast with volo you will get an initial draw when the copy enters as well as a draw trigger off both eidolons when the original ETBs.

Elemental Bond - Triggers off a good portion of the creatures in the deck as well as copies ETBing off of Volos ability.

Garruk's Uprising - Same as Elemental Bond but harder to trigger. The big benefit of this one is that it gives your creatures trample.

Return of the Wildspeaker - This is generally used to draw cards but doubles as a finisher with your wide boards.

Sea-Dasher Octopus - Another mutate creature allowing you to draw cards on combat damage.

Toski, Bearer of Secrets - Primarily another method of drawing cards through combat but doubles as a great body to mutate onto.

Interaction

Beast Within

Cyclonic Rift

Fierce Guardianship

Heroic Intervention

Mana Drain

Pongify

Reality Shift

Swan Song

Creatures

Acidic Slime

Amphin Mutineer - Required piece of interaction on a body. Allows you to remove troublesome creatures on the board and with Volo, you get to remove two!

Archipelagore -

Auspicious Starrix - One of your potential finishers. With all of the double mutates this can get out of hand very quickly

Avenger of Zendikar

Clever Impersonator - Fun piece of tech that allows you to copy permanents on the board

Consecrated Sphinx - What is better than one sphinx and drawing two cards? Two sphinxes and drawing four cards! Just be careful because this can get out of hand fast

Craterhoof Behemoth - One of our three primary finishers. Who could have known that this card could become even more broken.

Endurance

Gemrazer

God-Eternal Rhonas - Another of our primary finishers. This card allows us to either finish the game or go aggressive without worry of not being able to block the crack back.

Junk Winder

Kalonian Hydra

Kiora's Follower

Can be used to ramp or give pseudo vigilance to one of your creatures.

Pathbreaker Ibex

Peregrine Drake

Phyrexian Metamorph

Pouncing Shoreshark

Prosperous Innkeeper

Scute Swarm

Solemn Simulacrum

Spark Double

Spike Weaver

Temur Sabertooth

Tendershoot Dryad

Trumpeting Gnarr

Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Vizier of the Menagerie

Wandering Archaic  

Fun utility creatures that makes it difficult for your opponents to cast any instant/sorceries without you getting a copy or more.

Wurmcoil Engine

Other

Bala Ged Recovery  

Lightning Greaves

Source of haste and protection for your commander and creatures.

Relic of Progenitus

Used to make sure you don't have any creatures in your graveyard preventing you from triggering Volo's ability. Doubles as some graveyard hate when it matters.

Scavenger Grounds

Same as Relic of Progenitus but overall less useful.

Swiftfoot Boots

Source of haste and protection for your commander and creatures.

Twinning Staff - Used to copy creatures an additional time off of Volo's trigger. Also has some synergy with Wandering Archaic  

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Top Ranked	Achieved #51 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #36 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #3 position in Commander / EDH Tokens 2 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.52
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 G, Manifest 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	EDH Built (Paper), ZZZ Decks to Note, Great Builds